Having left Susita, our second location for the morning on the second day of touring with James was a modern site.
The Kinneret Courtyard was established as a Training Center for Jewish agricultural workers as part of the goal of reclaiming the land.
A.D. Gordon was a bit of a fanatical ideologue who believed that the only thing important was farming the land of Israel. He's considered a secular saint by the kibbutz movement.
There was a great short film of 8 minutes or so about Rachel the poetess. I had heard of her but I didn't know anything about her life and it was very sad. She caught tuberculosis and got thrown off of the kibbutz and ended up living in a small apartment in Tel Aviv where she wrote poetry and had to stay indoors most of the time. The love of her life never married her and both of them are buried together.
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